Buscemi’s initial offering, way back when, was the 100 mm, a luxe sneaker with prices approaching $1,000. It had an awkward silhouette: midtop, narrow at the ankle, rounded at the toe. There was a handle angling out at 45 degrees from the back — a smart innovation! — and a gold latch on the front with a gold lock dangling from the center. That hardware was the key: If your pants didn’t cinch somewhere above it, to show it off, you were missing the point.

Rappers wore them, then athletes, then those who liked to be in proximity to rappers or athletes. And now, maybe, you.

The front two-thirds of the new store is a hilarious, swank feint: Versace-lite carpet on the floor underneath a set of gilded pyramids, one of which has a white 100 mm on display as if at the Met. Walk in and pay respects, then sneak behind the wall to the back, which has a tight and elegant display of the company’s line, for men, women and babies. (The women’s style options are broader, and in colors that would be just as welcome on the men’s side of the store, if anyone’s listening.)

The oddness of the 100 mm shape was a sort of implicit demand: You had to adjust your outfit accordingly. Buscemi’s new styles scream their needs even louder. The buffalo leather workboot ($1,250), sturdy enough for a day at the job site, and beautiful enough for a night at Up&Down; and the new basketball sneaker ($1,195), which has a space-shuttle silhouette, silicone injections for comfort, and plenty of gold hardware. On the foot, it looks like a luscious warhead. I wanted a pair badly but fretted over the price and also the width of my jeans, which are not skinny but still disappeared inside these sneakers as if they were leggings.

As pants silhouettes have become increasingly starved — a trend that’s soon to be reversed, thankfully — and fabrics increasingly athletic, shoes have two options: like the Buscemi, become the raison d’être and the conversation piece, or alternatively, play nice and fit in by extending that silhouette, the reason blah Adidas running sneakers are the current ne plus ultra of fashion footwear.